Marie Mulvey-Roberts - The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities

The arts of Angela Carter

The Arts of Angela Carter

A cabinet of curiosities

Edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Manchester University Press

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For Nigel, as always,
Sandi and Jools, and
in memory of my cousin Susan

Sarah Gamble is Reader in English with Gender at Swansea University, where she teaches modules on contemporary womens writing, the Gothic and gender theory. She has published extensively on the life and work of Angela Carter, including Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line (1997) and Angela Carter: A Literary Life (2006). Sarah is currently writing on the significance of the somersault in Carters fiction, and planning a third monograph that will explore the influence of figurative art upon her work.

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochre is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and former Associate Dean of the Humanities. She is International Corresponding Member for the British Comparative Literature Association (https://bcla.org/about/international-corresponding-members). She has published on various aspects of modern and contemporary literature (including Dickens, Conrad, Nabokov, Carter, Rushdie, Donoghue, Yolen), the international fairy tale tradition from antiquity to the present, and literary translation (theory, practice, reception). She is the author of Origin and Originality in Salman Rushdies Fiction (1999), which focuses on the poetics and politics of cultural translation, and Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carters Translational Poetics (2013), which traces the interplay of translation and rewriting in Carters fiction. She guest-edited Angela Carter traductrice Angela Carter en traduction (2014), and co-edited Des Fata aux fes: regards croiss de lAntiquit nos jours (2011), Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2016), and Translation and Creativity la traduction comme cration (2016). (For a full list of publications, affiliations, and projects, see https://martinehennarddutheil.wordpress.com.)

Anna Krchy is Associate Professor and a member of the Gender Studies Research Group at the English Department of the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Szeged, a DEA in Semiology from Universit Paris VII Denis Diderot, and a habilitation degree in Literature and Culture from the University of Debrecen. Her research interests include gender and body studies, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, intermedial cultural representations, interfacings of Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, womens art and childrens literature. She is the author of Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter: Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View (2008) and Alice in Transmedia Wonderland (2016), editor of Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales (2011) and Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction (2018), co-editor of What Constitutes the Fantastic? (2010), The Iconology of Law and Order (2012), Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows (2012) and special journal issues: of EJES on Feminist Interventions into Intermedial Studies (2017) and of Bookbird on Translating and Transmediating Childrens Literature (2018).

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol and is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the journal Womens Writing. She publishes in the areas of Gothic, gender and human rights and has authored, edited and co-edited over thirty books including Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (2016). Her most recent monograph is Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016), winner of the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. Her next book is Pyrotechnics: The Incendiary Imagination of Angela Carter, co-edited with Charlotte Crofts, with whom she runs the website, getangelacarter.com. She co-curated the first art exhibition relating to the work of Angela Carter, hosted at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of her death and produced two musical adaptations of Carters The Bloody Chamber, about which she made a film for Massolit for use in schools. With Charlotte Crofts and Caleb Sivyer, she is a co-founder of the Angela Carter Society.

Michelle Ryan-Sautour is Matre de Confrences (Senior Lecturer) at the Universit dAngers, France, where she is co-director of the Short Story and Short Forms section of the CIRPaLL research group and Editor of Journal of the Short Story in English. She is one of the founding members, and currently Director, of the newly formed European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR). Her research focus is the speculative fiction and short stories of Angela Carter, Rikki Ducornet, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall with a special emphasis on authorship, reading pragmatics, game theory and gender. Ryan-Sautours work has been published in Marvels and Tales, Journal of the Short Story in English, Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, and in several collections.

Julie Sauvage is Assistant Professor at Universit Paul-Valry Montpellier 3 and a translator. She holds a PhD on Theatricality in Angela Carters novels (University of Bordeaux). She has published several articles on novels and short stories by Angela Carter and Kate Atkinson. She specializes in the study of narrative voice and image/text relationships, as well as myth and fairy tale rewriting in contemporary British fiction, and has recently been reorienting her research towards periodical studies. She is a member of EMMA (Etudes Montpelliraines du Monde Anglophone). Univ Paul Valry Montpellier 3, EMMA EA741, F34000, Montpellier, France.

Caleb Sivyer is Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he teaches undergraduate and foundation year modules on a wide range of subjects including myths and fairy tales in literature and film, political and cultural theory, and contemporary literature. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University, with a thesis that analysed the politics of gender and the visual in selected works by Virginia Woolf and Angela Carter. He also has a background in philosophy, holding a BA in philosophy from the University of Kent. His research interests include contemporary literature, womens writing, gender and sexuality, film studies, literary and cultural theory, myth and fairy tale and philosophy. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on Angela Carter, as well as articles on other writers, including J.G. Ballard and Alison Bechdel. He is the co-founder (along with Marie Mulvey-Roberts and Charlotte Crofts) of the Angela Carter Society and he runs a website devoted to the life and works of Angela Carter (www.angelacarteronline.com), which has a thriving online community.